Investing is about patience, psychology, discipline, and long-term thinking. The wisdom of legendary investors, economists, and thinkers can offer perspective and guidance.
- “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”
— Warren Buffett - “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
— Benjamin Franklin - “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.”
— Warren Buffett - “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
— Warren Buffett - “Know what you own, and know why you own it.”
— Peter Lynch
- “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.”
— Warren Buffett - “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘This time it’s different.'”
— Sir John Templeton - “In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.”
— Robert Arnott - “The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them.”
— Peter Lynch - “If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.”
— Warren Buffett
- “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”
— Warren Buffett - “Time in the market beats timing the market.”
— Ken Fisher - “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.”
— Albert Einstein (attributed) - “Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.”
— Paul Samuelson - “The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator.”
— Benjamin Graham
- “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
— John Maynard Keynes - “The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.”
— Benjamin Graham - “You make most of your money in a bear market, you just don’t realize it at the time.”
— Shelby M.C. Davis - “Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.”
— Warren Buffett - “In investing, your worst enemy is not the market; it is your own emotions.”
— Unknown
- “The goal of the non-professional should not be to pick winners—but should rather be to own a cross-section of businesses that in aggregate are bound to do well.”
— Warren Buffett - “Riches do not respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.”
— Napoleon Hill - “If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.”
— Warren Buffett - “Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
— Benjamin Franklin - “The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.”
— Warren Buffett
- “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
— Jim Rohn - “Wealth is the transfer of money from the impatient to the patient.”
— Unknown - “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”
— P.T. Barnum - “Success in investing doesn’t correlate with IQ… what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble.”
— Warren Buffett - “Waiting helps you as an investor and people just hate to wait.”
— Charlie Munger
- “The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.”
— Benjamin Graham - “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci - “Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.”
— Warren Buffett - “Never invest in a business you cannot understand.”
— Warren Buffett - “Investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.”
— Jason Zweig
- “Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.”
— Baron Rothschild - “Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it’s doing.”
— Peter Lynch - “Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.”
— Warren Buffett - “The function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith - “Assets put money in your pocket, liabilities take money out.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
Investing is as much an art as it is a science. While the markets may fluctuate, the principles behind intelligent investing remain steady. Stay informed, stay patient, and always think long-term.
